ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,577, issued on June 17, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Ultrasound imaging" was invented by Muhammad Usman Ghani (Boston), Hyeonwoo Lee (Cambridge, Mass.), Jonathan Fincke (Belmont, Mass.) and Balasundar Iyyavu Raju (North Andover, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound system includes a processor and an ultrasound transducer array. The processor receives a first ultrasound image and a second ultrasound (1320) image from the transducer array. The first and second ultrasound images may be perpendicular to one another. The processor generates a score associated with the first ultrasound i...